AGA was a German automobile

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

 company, once quite large, which manufactured its wares in Berlin from 1919 to 1929, and which by 1922 was manufacturing 1000 cars a month. It was part of the Stinnes group of companies. AGA stood for Autogen Gasaccumulator AG, a company originally founded in 1914.

The first car, the Typ A of 1919 had a 1420 cc four-cylinder

Cylinder (engine)

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically cast from aluminum or cast iron before receiving precision machine work...

 car. The more successful Typ C followed in 1921 with the same engine but tuned to give more power and was sometimes used as a taxi

Taxicab

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. After Hugo Stinnes died in 1924, AGA and its sister companies Dinos

Dinos

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, which was bought in 1925 to increase production space, and Rabag which was licensed to build Bugatti

Bugatti

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 cars at the time, ran into difficulties. Plans for a six cylinder model never reached the production stage. From 1926, production was severely curtailed and stopped completely in 1929 after about 8000 had been made.

Willy Loge drove a 6/30PS sports-racing version which had a 1490cc engine, and which won many races and was entered in the 1926 German Grand Prix

1926 German Grand Prix

The first auto race 1926 German Grand Prix, held at the AVUS track on July 11, 1926, in heavy rain, was won by native son, Rudolf Caracciola.After the 1936 win of Bernd Rosemeyer and two more wins by "Carratsch", no other German driver would accomplish a German GP win until Michael Schumacher in...

. Other racers also drove AGA cars.

The Swedish Thulin

Thulin

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company made AGA cars under licence between 1920 and 1924.